There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere. Graham Greene More Quotes by Graham Greene More Quotes From Graham Greene That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer. Graham Greene imaginative instinct character My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action. Graham Greene titles saws action The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief. Graham Greene dont-believe trouble believe Like the characters in Chekhov, they have no reserves -– you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a world peopled by eccentrics, of odd professions, almost incredible stupidities, and, to balance them, amazing endurances. Graham Greene stupidity secret character They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness. Graham Greene god-love literature kindness It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows. Graham Greene nurse dream doors One gets started, and then, suddenly, one cannot remember what toothpaste they use . . . the moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him. Graham Greene use doe character Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are. Graham Greene thrillers literature If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it. Graham Greene curiosity ifs long One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Graham Greene pain book thinking So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay. Graham Greene delay unhappiness life-is Love taught me that your honour did but jest. Graham Greene jest honour taught You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?. Graham Greene wine blood thinking I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays. Graham Greene play writing people Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories. Graham Greene running memories book Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing. Graham Greene government people thinking If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union. Graham Greene soviet soviet-union unions Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower. Graham Greene innocence voice towers A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious. Graham Greene unconscious majority character An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely. Graham Greene biographies errors may
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